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By Larry LimpfNews [email protected]

Some farm math: Researchers at The Ohio State University calculate a 1,400 pound dairy cow “produces” about 25 tons of manure annually. Multiply that by, say, 1,000 or more cattle housed in a Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations (CAFO) facility, and you have a lot of manure. And the phos-phorus in the manure leaching from farm fi elds to tributaries of Lake Erie was one of the major concerns expressed by the public to the International Joint Commission as it prepared the Lake Erie Ecosystem Priority report released in 2014. But it’s not just the volume of manure at CAFOs that worries Larry and Vickie Haskins of Bloom Township in Wood County. A lawsuit they fi led in U.S. District Court in Toledo contends the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and Ohio’s EPA and Ohio Department of Agriculture (ODA) have violated federal law covering permits for the facilities in the state. Although Judge David Katz last month denied their request for a preliminary in-junction to block the ODA from issuing any more permits for CAFOs without authori-zation from the U.S. EPA, they remain con-

Phosphorus a major concern

Farm manure permits challenged

vinced their case is strong and look forward to a hearing. According to their suit: • The U.S. EPA has been aware the ODA has been administering the National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permit program for CAFOs but hasn’t granted the department authority to do so. • The federal EPA is the administrator of the Clean Water Act, including NPDES permitting, but states may seek approval to administer parts of the act and the per-mits. In 1974, the Ohio EPA and U.S. EPA reached agreement, allowing the Ohio EPA to oversee the permit program in the state. Regarding CAFOs, the state EPA regulatory process included a Permit to Install, Permit

to Operate/wastewater management plan and an NPDES permit. • The Ohio EPA administered the per-mitting program and issued more than 100 permits for CAFOs. • But a state law went into effect in 2001 that transferred regulatory authority for CAFO permits from the Ohio EPA to the ODA. The ODA and EPA reached agree-ment in 2002 to transfer the authority but the state didn’t notify the federal EPA until 2006 of the transfer as required by federal law. • Consequently, the ODA has “know-ingly violated” federal law by not getting the federal EPA approval for permits prior to issuing them, the lawsuit states. Ironically, the Haskins attempted to fi le their lawsuit the day before the water emergency was in effect last August in Toledo, but due to a problem on the court website, it was fi led the following Monday. Vickie Haskins said she is especially troubled by what she sees as loopholes in regulations that allow manure to be trans-ported off-site for use as fertilizer on other fi elds. “The ODA is supposed to work with CAFO owners and operators to develop manure management plans so the massive amounts of manure generated by the CAFO are properly applied to meet the agronomic

Lake Erie, directly across the street from the Lake Erie Research Center, Oregon, during the water crisis. (Photo courtesy of University of Toledo, Lake Erie Center)

By Yaneek SmithPress Contributing [email protected]

Olympic wrestling hopeful and Oak Harbor native J.D. Bergman had the unique experience of working on the movie Foxcatcher, which stars Steve Carell, Channing Tatum and Mark Ruffalo, and playing a wrestler in the film, which is cur-rently in theaters.

The film is based on the true story of two Olympic champion brothers, Mark and Dave Schultz, who trained at a wrestling facility located at the home of multimil-lionaire and wrestling enthusiast John du Pont, who develops a complex relationship with the men before things turn hostile. Foxcatcher, which has been nominated for five Academy Awards and currently has a rating of 87 percent on Rotten Tomatoes, is directed by Bennett Miller, who directed other noteworthy films like Moneyball and Capote.

Bergman says he enjoyed the experi-ence immensely.

“I just saw it a couple weeks ago,” he said. “Bennett Miller did a great job. He wanted it to be authentic. He doesn’t mind working with amateurs. The extras, you could tell in their faces (they) were trying to act, and it didn’t look natural. He just said to do what you would (normally) do in this situation — give us an outline. It was very organic.

“The movie was a little dark and dreary, but it was very well done. It was a good film and I was honored to be a part of it. After filming a scene with Mark Ruffalo and Steve Carell, I hadn’t actually met Carell, and after filming that scene I had the courage to talk to him and I said, ‘It was a huge honor to work with you. I’ve seen every episode of The Office, and I’m a big fan.’ He said, ‘It’s my pleasure, too. You were hilarious.’ When Steve Carrell says you’re hilarious, it’s a good day.”

In a scene that he was filming with Ruffalo and Carell, Bergman did his Arnold Schwarzenegger impression, something the cast got a kick out of. Unfortunately, that scene did not make the final cut.

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Farm manure regulations are at the heart of lawsuit

needs of the next crop, but that is not hap-pening,” she said. “Instead, CAFO owners are allowed to elect the distribution and utilization meth-od of manure management for ‘any quan-tity of manure that is not managed or un-der the control of the owner or operator,” Haskins said, citing Ohio Administrative Code. “This means Ohio CAFOs can cir-cumvent liability for improper manure application by merely transferring manure for land application elsewhere, with little sunshine on what happens after the hand off.” Dina Pierce, a spokesperson for the Ohio EPA, said the agency wouldn’t com-ment on the case while it is pending. “While the law was changed to allow the department of agriculture to assume the CAFO wastewater discharge program (the NPDES permitting), this transfer has not yet occurred. Ohio EPA continues to issue discharge permits for CAFOs. CAFOs are not allowed to discharge waste-water except in certain circumstances and they must have written manure manage-

ment plans,” Pierce said. “Also, Ohio EPA responds when there is a spill from a CAFO into surface waters. Ohio EPA can take en-forcement action for these incidents, if war-ranted.” According to fi gures compiled by the

Ohio Lake Erie Task Force, overall cattle numbers are down in the Ohio Lake Erie Basin but dairy cattle inventories show an increase of 39 percent since 2002. “Beginning in the late 1990s, a trend toward construction of large, confi ned dairy facili-

ties with herds from 650 to 3000 head be-gan to occur. Many new dairies are located in the Lake Erie basin, especially the upper Maumee watershed in Michigan, Indiana, and Ohio. The largest dairy operations, i.e., those with greater than 500 head, handle the bulk of their manure as a liquid. Dairies with more than 700 head are also required (under CAFO rules) to contain and manage storm water runoff from theproduction area. “In total, cattle-generated phosphorus was estimated at 5,670 tons in 2007, which is 50 percent of the total Lake Erie basin manure production. Approximately 36.5 percent of all cattle manure generated in the Lake Erie basin (from Ohio, Indiana and Michigan) is generated by producing dairy cows,” the task force report says.

By J. Patrick EakenPress Staff [email protected]

Last August, Toledo made national news when microcystin, a toxin created by invasive algae in Lake Erie, poisoned the city’s drinking water.

The algae can be difficult to control naturally and the toxin it produces can cause liver damage if ingested. As a result of high levels of microcystin, the city issued a three-day drinking water ban covering the Toledo service area, which includes 108,501 service taps and about 500,000 residents.

Steps have already been taken to en-sure it does not happen again.

Construction is set to begin at the Collins Park Water Treatment plant in February on an $8.3 million temporary fi x to reduce the possibility microcystin will foul Toledo’s water again this summer.

“What we’re talking about is an added barrier for the toxin,” Andrew McClure, plant administrator, said. “It would be a temporary kind of stop that would be in-corporated into the future.”

Warren Henry, city program manager, agreed that the additional barrier is an extra precaution.

“We’re adding dependability and reli-ability. We can put in temporary facilities that can help the situation out,” said Henry.

The construction, expected to be com-pleted by July, is being fi nanced by a zero percent interest loan from Ohio’s Water Supply Revolving Loan Account (WSRLA). Administered by Ohio EPA’s Division of Drinking and Ground Waters and Division of Environmental and Financial Assistance, the WSRLA provides below market interest rates for compliance related improvements to public water systems.

Toledo is expected to charge an addi-tional $3.08 per year on residential bills to service the $415,000 annual debt.

An Ohio EPA report from December 2014 states the project “will yield signifi -cant health benefi ts by allowing treatment of algal toxins during the harmful algal bloom season.”

There will be no public meetings before construction begins at the water plant, located in East Toledo. The Ohio Environmental Protection Agency has al-ready approved the project. The public comment period ended last week. Plant upgrade

Plans call for Toledo to install addi-tional Powder Activated Carbon (PAC) and

potassium permanganate feeding systems at its low service pump station at the plant. Potassium permanganate in large enough doses breaks up algal cells. PAC absorbs the microtoxin that is released, which is then removed from the water during treatment.

The upgrade includes the addition of a 100-foot high storage silo for PAC, a chemi-cal feed control building and appurtenant piping within the fenced grounds of the low service pump station, which will increase the absorption of organic compounds, in-cluding toxins, during the six-hour deten-tion time of the water in the force main.

Also proposed is additional PAC feed systems, which will entail the installation of two 70-feet high chemical storage silos with appurtenant controls and piping on the north side of Collins Park.

Separate equipment contracts have been awarded and are currently in the fab-rication process. A construction bid is ex-pected to be awarded within two to three weeks.

“It’s truly remarkable — from the time this whole event happened back in August - to be in the position we are in now and have all this in place by July. It just speaks

volumes to the cooperation between the Ohio EPA, the city, and the consulting com-munity to get this done,” Henry said.

Toledo is also researching a long-term plan. The city is evaluating two alternative permanent microtoxin control methods — ozone treatment and granular active carbon treatment. In the environmental report, the EPA states that the ultimate plan may be a combination of both approaches.

Henry says the city received a $1.3 mil-lion loan from the Ohio EPA for research, which is underway. National engineering fi rm ARCADIS, based in Colorado with a branch offi ce in downtown Toledo, is tak-ing the lead on laboratory research. Pilot testing has begun, with recommendations expected to be implemented within two to three years. Planning and construction of permanent algal controls at the plant would extend well into future harmful al-gal bloom seasons.

A $300 million fi ve-year permanent upgrade at the plant, originally built in 1941, was already underway when the wa-ter crisis hit. The improvements include new piping, fi ltration modifi cations, and basin upgrades.

“Of that $300 million, about $139 million is for upgrade modernization or replacement,” Henry said. “In 2014, we either had $31 million completed or work underway. In 2015, we’re programming an-other $47 million that will be in construc-tion.” Plant tour

After the water crisis, a reporter from The Press took a tour of the Collins Park plant where drinking water treatment pro-cesses were explained.

Except for handling microcystin to meet safe drinking standards, the plant is capable of eliminating other toxins that could potentially pollute the water system.

The Toledo water system draws its water from the western basin of Lake Erie through an intake, located in 24 feet of wa-ter three miles offshore from Reno Beach. Water fl ows from the intake via gravity to the low service pump station through a 108-inch diameter intake pipe buried un-der the lake. The intake has within it lines potassium permanganate from the low ser-vice pump station for the treatment of ze-bra mussels, an invasive species that fuels toxic algae blooms in the lake.

Water is treated with PAC at the low service pump station for taste and odor control and is pumped to Collins Park via approximately nine miles of dual water lines that are 78 inches and 60 inches in diameter.

The plant, which is rated at a maxi-mum of 120 million gallons per day (MGD), treats water by rapid mix, fl occulation, sed-imentation, re-carbonation, fi ltration, and detention followed by high service pump-ing to the distribution system. Demand averages 79 MGD, with higher fl ows in the summer at 96 MGD compared to winter’s 71 MGD.

During fi ltration, water travels at a rate of 1,500 gallons per minute through each of 30 fi lters. Chlorine is then added with the fl exibility to increase or lower the amount based on what is needed. Each fi lter has a 10 to 20 year life before it has to be replaced and is backwashed daily to keep clean.

Aluminum sulfate, lime, soda ash, polyphosphate, fl uoride and chlorine diox-ide are also added during treatment.


Toledo Water Treatment Plant Administrator Andrew McClure talks to media during a tour of the Collins Park facility in East Toledo. (Press photo by J. Patrick Eaken)

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Oregon, which was unaffected by the three day tap water ban in Toledo last August, is nonetheless upgrading its water treatment plant to improve water quality. The water source for Toledo’s and Oregon’s water treatment plants is Lake Erie’s Western Basin, which has been plagued by large blue green algal blooms for years. The raw water intake for each com-munity is about a mile apart. The city wants to stay ahead of the curve and not be put in the position Toledo found itself in last August. Last September, city council approved a $295,000 contract with ARCADIS, US Inc., for additional design engineering services for raw water treatment improvements for the water treatment plant. Water treatment plants typically use ac-tivated carbon to treat algae. Oregon plans a $13 million upgrade that will add the use of ozone in the pretreatment process that is very effective in treating microcystin, the toxic algae that caused the water crisis in Toledo. “It would be the most cost-effective in combination with active carbon to keep us in a situation where we could control the destiny of whatever is in the lake,” said Mayor Mike Seferian. “Ozone is more effi cient,” said Public Service Director Paul Roman. “It defi nitely kills algae.” Ozone also reduces the use of chlorine and its byproduct, trihalomethane (THM), an environmental pollutant, in the treat-ment process. Chlorine is used to treat el-evated levels of algae toxins, such as micro-cystin, in the drinking water. When chemi-cal disinfectants such as chlorine react with organic material in the water, new com-pounds known as Disinfection Byproducts (DBP’s) are formed. Trihalomethane is a DBP. Ingesting high levels of trihalometh-ane over time can cause liver, kidney, and central nervous system problems. It can also pose an increased risk of cancer. Last September, Oregon issued a drink-

Oregon

Water treatment plant to add ozone to fi ght algae

ing water notice to all of its water customers after a water sample showed trihalometh-ane above the drinking water standard. It was the fi rst time the city had exceeded the standard. Roman chalked up the problem to the addition of more chlorine to fi ght the algae toxins in the months of August and September. The city did not recommend using an alternative water supply, such as bottled water, because it was still safe to drink. It can become a health issue if the level re-mains high over time. Other communities along the lake have also switched to ozone, such as Carroll Township in Ottawa County, which had a drinking water ban in 2010 after a water sample detected a high level of microcystin. The city expects designs to be complet-ed in 2015, and will bid the project in the fall. Construction will begin in the middle of 2016. “The equipment is quite large,” said Roman. “To some degree, it needs its own building.” The upgrade also calls for modifi cation of fi lters to provide proper fi ltration with the ozone, he added.

Oregon has spent years updating and expanding its water treatment plant. From 1999 to 2004, the city doubled the capacity at the plant. It took fi ve years to construct in fi ve different phases. The city made investments in low service pump sta-tions, where the raw water comes in. “We’ve made a lot of improvements. We have invested in our water infrastructure,” said Roman. Oregon, which provides water for several communities in Northwest Ohio, bought its own testing equipment in 2010 to get quicker results of laboratory analysis conducted on both raw and treated water. The Ohio Environmental Protection Agency had previously conducted the tests for the city, which took about four days to com-plete. The city didn’t think that was suffi -cient time to be able to adjust its treatment should it be needed. Oregon’s own testing now takes about fi ve hours.

Ditches The city has implemented “green infra-structure” enhancements, such as the Big Ditch improvement and the Oregon Flood Relief and Erosion Control projects, to re-

duce phosphorus getting into the lake. Both projects included the widening of ditches or streams to purposefully reduce the water’s fl ow velocity and allow suspend-ed sediment to settle out before discharging to the lake, according to Roman. Phosphorus and other nutrients, which typically attach to the sediment, are then ab-sorbed by wetland plantings located along the bottom of the streams. The city also has implemented two new green infrastructure projects within the last year. The Wolf Creek Riparian Restoration project, a joint project with the University of Toledo, created over 900 linear feet of an enhanced fl oodplain stream corridor along Wolf Creek, near the city’s water treatment plant. Flood plain restoration includes the planting of native trees and wetland plugs on the site, which will be fi nished this spring. The project is in conjunction with the University of Toledo’s constructed sub-surface wetland project at Maumee Bay State Park. Water test results from the city’s new sedimentation pond on Wolf Creek, which is part of the enhanced fl ood plain stream corridor located upstream of Maumee Bay State Park, is already showing reductions in sediment and dissolved phosphorus. The bioretention demonstration, which was completed last fall, included the instal-lation of 4,950 square feet of bioretention cells to treat storm water from parking lot runoff. The project is a demonstration that was funded by an Ohio EPA Surface Water Improvement grant. Biorention cells contain native plants and an engineered soil mix to mimic natural environments, such as wet-lands and wet prairies, to improve water quality. The project treats parking lot runoff from 1.7 acres of impervious surfaces.

These volunteers from the Sum-merfi eld Town-ship Volunteer Fire Department in Petersburg Michigan as well as fi refi ghters from the city of Oregon donated water to East Toledo residents during the Au-gust water crisis. (Press fi le photo by Stephanie Szozda)


Saving Lake ErieA special report from The Press

Septic systems: Overlooked source of phosphorusBy Larry LimpfNews [email protected]

For more than three decades, Kurt Erichsen, vice president of environmental planning at the Toledo Metropolitan Area Council of Governments, has coordinated the efforts of public and private entities in implementing environmental programs. He shares his thoughts about algal problems in the western basin of Lake Erie. Q. As someone who’s been involved in environmental matters in Northwest Ohio/S.E. Michigan for 31 years, where do you think we’ve made the most progress in addressing stormwater run-off and related problems? A. Throughout the region, a great many homeowners have replaced septic systems that we know discharged bacteria and nu-trients. Sewage treatment has made great progress through sewer extensions and new or improved treatment plants. Managing stormwater to reduce pollu-tion is a program that didn’t exist 30 years ago. Stormwater programs today help pro-tect Lake Erie.

Q. What areas have been lacking? A. First, septic systems are an often overlooked source of phosphorus. The Ohio Department of Health calculates that 39 percent of northwest Ohio household sewage systems have failed or are substan-dard. New sewage rules that go into effect this year will help, but they lack fi nancial assistance to the health departments to implement the rules, or to homeowners for upgrading their sewage systems. Next, more work is needed to help the agricultural community reduce dissolved phosphorus loading. Since the 1980s, Ohio agriculture has been very responsive in sup-porting conservation tillage and reducing phosphorus fertilizer use. But the lake eco-system has changed, and now the emphasis is on dissolved phosphorus, which calls for a new set of management practices. Also, the practice of disposing of Toledo harbor dredgings in the lake should be replaced by coastal or upland benefi cial reuse of the material. Dredging the ship-ping channel is absolutely essential for our economy. We don’t think the dredge spoils are the single or even the largest contribu-tor of phosphorus to the Lake Erie Western Basin. But the Corps of Engineers invests considerable effort and expense in dredg-ing sediment out of the channel. Having gone that far, removing the sediment and its nutrients from the ecosystem altogether can only benefi t Lake Erie.

Q. From 2007 to 2011 TMACOG and the Portage River Basin Council prepared a plan for that river’s watershed. Have fund-ing and resources been available to imple-ment many of its strategies? A. The Portage Watershed Plan iden-tifi es three main areas for water quality im-provement: public sewage treatment, septic systems and agriculture. Most of the public sewage treatment needs have been completed or are un-derway. Ohio Environmental Protection Agency data found 86 percent of test sites failing bacteria standards, indicating wide-spread septic system failure. As I said, fund-ing to address septic systems is lacking. The State of Ohio, Ohio EPA and Ohio Department of Natural Resources, U.S. EPA, U.S. Department of Agriculture, the Farm Bureau and other agencies have been very responsive with funding to promote agri-cultural best management practices. The funding provided has been substantial and is a good start toward solving the problem. Q. How would you describe TMACOG’s role in trying to remedy the algal bloom sit-uation? A. We work with partner agencies — state and federal agencies, park districts, universities, and local governments to name a few — to restore natural habitat that keeps phosphorus out of the lake...Phosphorus has been known to be a prob-lem and we have collectively put a lot of attention into learning more. It will take continued study and focus but we aren’t held back by fi nger pointing.

By Tammy WalroPress Staff [email protected]

Until Aug. 2, when a half million peo-ple in Northwest Ohio found themselves without clean tap water due to a large harmful algal bloom in the western basin of Lake Erie, the terms “algal blooms” and “microcystis” were largely unfamiliar to most residents – despite the fact that the blooms and their cause have been an issue for more than fi ve decades. In the wake of the water crisis, a grow-ing number of people of all ages have been joining politicians, scientists and envi-ronmentalists in visiting the University of Toledo Lake Erie Center in Oregon to learn more about algal blooms, as well as other topics related to the health and welfare of the lake. Located in the northwestern corner of Maumee Bay State Park, at 6200 Bayshore Rd. in Oregon, the LEC opened in October 1998 with a mission to: • Conduct long-term research on envi-ronmental conditions and living and non-living aquatic resources in Maumee Bay and the western basin of Lake Erie; • Research the relationship between land-use practices and water quality, habitat, economics, natural resources, sustainability, and environmental and public health. • Facilitate cutting-edge environmen-tal research and education experiences for graduate and undergraduate students, and to sponsor research and collaborations by faculty from the University of Toledo as well as other universities, federal and state agencies and visiting scientists. • Engage secondary school students, teachers, and the public with environmen-tal education, sustainable living, and in-formed awareness programs. Research labs “Our research focuses on Lake Erie, the Maumee River, and the watershed,” said Rachel Lohner, LEC Education Program Manager. “We have fi ve professors here that all kind of take a different angle on that re-search.” The researchers and their labs include the Applied Spatial Ecology Lab, led by Dr. Jonathan Bossenbroek; the Aquatic Ecology Lab led by Dr. Christine Mayer; the Great Lakes Genetics & Genomics Lab led by Dr. Carol Stepien, who is also the LEC direc-tor; the Environmental Remediation and Restoration Lab led by Dr. Daryl Dwyer, and the Western Lake Erie Limnology (study of inland aquatic ecosystems), led by Dr. Thomas Bridgeman. Dr. Dwyer recently was awarded $1 million in U.S. EPA Great Lakes Restoration Initiative funding to construct a passive treatment wetland in Maumee Bay State Park. “The terraced wetland will act as a fi lter for contaminants before they hit the lake,” Lohner said. “There are a lot of drainage ditches in the area that contribute a lot in terms of nutrients and bacteria to Lake Erie.” Dr. Bridgeman’s lab is the primary lab that does algae work, according to Lohner.

Researchers have monitored lake for years


• The Great Lakes contain 1/5th of the world’s fresh water.• Lake Erie is the 12th largest body of fresh water in the world.• Lake Erie produces more fish than all of the Great Lakes combined.• Lake Erie is the shallowest and warmest of the Great Lakes.• 80% of Lake Erie water comes from the upper Great Lakes via the Detroit River.• The Maumee River is the largest tributary flowing into the Great Lakes, a major phosphorous source.• 11 million people derive their drinking water from Lake Erie.• $1.4 billion is generated by lake fishing and recreation.• The Maumee River watershed is 4.3 million acres.

Lake Erie facts:

Source: Lake Erie Waterkeeper Inc.

“For several years, he has been going out about every 10 days, collecting water sam-ples and looking at different parameters indicating the health of the lake, including monitoring for different algae. “They’ve been sampling the same lo-cations using the same methods for many years. During the water crisis, they may have thrown in an extra sampling trip or two,” she said. Due to his research, Dr. Bridgeman responded to several media inquiries, and continues to speak on the topic, she said. Public attraction In the days and weeks after the water crisis, the LEC saw a spike in visitors, many of whom wanted to learn more about algal blooms and Lake Erie in general, Lohner said. “Although we typically get more peo-ple in the summer because of the number of visitors to Maumee Bay State Park – we’re located on park property – the news cover-age about the algal blooms brought in even more,” she said. “We’ve had individuals and families, as well as different commu-nity groups, an educational sorority, senior citizen groups, and others who come to take a tour or do an activity.” Tours of the LEC are offered Wednesday mornings at 10 a.m. Visitors can stop in any time during open hours, Monday through Friday, 9 a.m.- 4:30 p.m. In the public lobby, which was recent-ly renovated thanks to a $15,000 grant from

Women in Philanthropy at The University of Toledo, visitors will fi nd iPads and a computer kiosk that showcase LEC research labs and resources, information about al-gae, Lake Erie trivia and a live feed from the LEC weather station. There is also a 3-D interactive model of a terraced wetland, displays on native fi sh, algae and insects, an exhibit on rocks, fossils and minerals and a kids’ corner offering hands-on learn-ing with animal furs, 3-D models, books, puzzles and more. As part of its education and outreach mission, the center hosts monthly public lectures focusing on relevant issues within the Great Lakes region. Lectures are offered September through May (except December). See the schedule of upcoming topics in the series at http://www.utoledo.edu/nsm/lec/. “In the summer, we have a Naturalist Series, which features nature talks and out-door activities,” Lohner said. “In the past, we’ve had speakers from Nature’s Nursery and the Zoo. We’ve gone out in our pond and done sampling for amphibians, rep-tiles and fi sh. We’ve done bug collecting, birdwatching, stargazing and owl-calling, which were really cool.” Throughout the year, the LEC conducts art and photo contests, calling for entries that showcase the nature of the region. The deadline for the 2015 Art Contest is March 30. To learn more about the Lake Erie Center, call 419-530-8360, visit the center on Facebook or follow at twitter.com/lak-eriecenter. The website includes copies of the cen-ter’s newsletter, as well as a wide range of information about the 2014 algal bloom, and details about the Water Task Force formed by UT in response to the water crisis. Visitors to the website may also make a tax-deductible contribution to help support research, education and outreach at the LEC.

By Tammy WalroPress Staff Writer [email protected]

On Friday, Aug. 1, 2014 – hours be-fore Toledo issued a tap water ban, Dr. Jeff Reutter was at the Stone Lab on Gibraltar Island in Put-in-Bay harbor addressing Farm Bureau members. “I was explaining how close we had come to a crisis situation in 2013, and what an emergency it would have been if we had gone over the 1 part per billion levels and had to shut down the water treatment plant in Toledo,” recalled Reutter, director of Stone Lab and the Ohio Sea Grant program at Ohio State University. At 6 the next morning, Reutter got a call at his Columbus home from the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency. Before 8 a.m., he had spoken with local members of congress as they headed to Toledo. They were seeking information on the harmful algal bloom that had shut down the water supply to many of their constituents. They knew Reutter, one of the foremost experts on algae in Lake Erie, could give them that information. Reutter, along with some 65 investiga-tors from more than 20 universities or agen-ciesm work at Stone Lab throughout the year with the goal of addressing the most pressing problems facing the Great Lakes – including harmful algal blooms. They fol-

Stone Lab addresses lake’s pressing problems

low generations of scientists before them who shared the same mission. As Ohio State University’s Island Campus on Lake Erie, the facilities are the center for the university’s research and teaching about Lake Erie. They also serve the Ohio Sea Grant College Program, a base for a consortium of 12 colleges and univer-sities in Ohio that focus on surface water issues. The oldest freshwater fi eld station in the country, the facility has been Ohio’s Lake Erie Lab since 1895. “There’s a lot of history at Stone Laboratory,” Reutter said. “The average age of the structures is 1910.” Since 1990, students have come from 112 different universities to study there, he said. “You can go back through history; go around the country and look at the people who work at U.S. EPA and Ohio EPA and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and a lot of them are former Stone Lab students.” Reutter began working on Lake Erie as

Stone Lab staff deployed a state-of-the-art buoy designed to provide real-time monitoring of water conditions in Lake Erie’s western basin. (Photo courtesy of OSU, Ohio Sea Grant and Stone Lab)


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a graduate student at Stone Lab in 1971. He never left. His knowledge and reputation, and Stone Lab’s storied history of Lake Erie research, made them among the “go to” re-sources for government offi cials, media and others way before the Toledo water crisis. “Normally, in a year, I’m asked to speak about Lake Erie and algal blooms somewhere between 75 and 100 times,” Reutter said. “In 2012 and 2013 our work was covered in more than 400 publications. In 2014, it’s going to be in over 500.” In the hectic aftermath of the water ban, staff from Stone Lab took toxin analy-sis supplies to Toledo offi ces, where testing supplies were running low. Throughout the crisis, Reutter and research coordinator Dr. Justin Chaffi n were in conference calls with Ohio EPA, U.S. EPA, the City of Toledo and Stone Laboratory every three hours. In addition, Reutter fi elded a barrage of calls from local, national and international media, including NPR, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, NBC Nightly News and MSNBC. “At 10:30 Sunday night, Good Morning America was in my living room in Columbus fi lming for the next morning,” he said. He also hosted a webinar on harmful algal blooms attended by 150 people that was subsequently viewed more than 600 times on YouTube. To further help inform the community and to reduce and prevent harmful algal blooms through education and outreach, Ohio Sea Grant put together a collection of frequently asked questions on its website, go.osu.edu/toledohab. “That period of a little over a week was crazy –I would like to have to not go through that again,” Reutter said. “I’m sure that would be echoed even more so by peo-ple in Toledo who were really suffering in the middle of that crisis.”

Ongoing effort As they had been doing decades before the water crisis struck, Stone Lab researchers will continue to monitor water quality in the Lake Erie Western Basin. “Our work goes way back,” Reutter said. “Dave Chandler was work-ing at Stone Lab do-ing algal and nutri-ent work through the ice in the 1930s

and we’ll keep at it until the problem is solved.” In addition to research vessels and equipment housed in the facility’s Algae & Water Quality Laboratory, which was reno-vated and reopened in the summer of 2013, the lab added a high-tech buoy to its arsenal of monitoring tools in September. Donated by Fondriest Environmental and upgraded with additional equipment through grant funding, the buoy provides real-time moni-toring of water conditions, including harm-ful algal blooms. In season (from ice out to ice in on the lake), the data is visible to the public online at http://wqdatalive.com/public/64. “The key time we want it in there will be from June to about the middle of October,” Reutter said. “Our goal with this really is to be able to monitor the algal blooms along with the nutrients. We’ll put it out in early April because we also want to document the nutrient concentrations before the blooms start.” Other continuing research/outreach efforts include collaboration with Ohio Environmental Education Fund (OEEF) and Ohio EPA on continued nutrient, algal and toxin research and monitoring, using Lake Erie charter captains who volunteer to collect water samples when they take cus-tomers out onto the lake. Ohio Sea Grant and Stone Lab are also working to bring together farmers, fertil-izer companies, scientists and manage-ment agencies to help fi nd ways to prevent blooms through new management practices.

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Since Toledo issued a three day tap water ban on Aug. 2 after high levels of microcystin were detected in the city’s water treatment plant, there have been a number of funding initiatives and legisla-tive proposals aimed at addressing the algal blooms in Lake Erie. Last October, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced that Ohio, Michigan and Indiana would share more than $8.6 million in grant funding to deal with the issue. Ohio has received the largest share at $7.4 million. The Ohio Department of Natural Resources received $5.9 million, and the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency received more than $1.5 million. The grants are part of the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative (GLRI), which will: • Expand monitoring and forecast-ing to help drinking water treatment plant operators and beach managers minimize health impacts associated with harmful al-gal blooms; • Provide more incentives for farm-ers in western Lake Erie watersheds to re-duce phosphorus runoff that contributes to harmful algal blooms; • Improve measurement of phospho-rus loads in Lake Erie tributaries. The Ohio EPA is using its $1.5 million in funding to expand Maumee tributary monitoring to measure the success of agri-cultural conservation practices, according to Dina Pierce, media coordinator at the Northwest District & Southwest District of the Ohio EPA. “To do this, monitoring will be en-hanced at 12 sites by installing U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) continuous dis-charge fl ow gauges in direct Lake Erie trib-utaries and four targeted watersheds,” she said. “The gauges will provide the water quality information to track the effective-ness of water quality improvement projects in these watersheds.” The Tri-State Western Lake Erie Basin Phosphorus Reduction Initiative, a partnership among Ohio, Michigan and Indiana, was awarded $17.5 million this month by the United States Department of Agriculture, with the goal of helping farm-ers implement conservation practices that reduce the fl ow of phosphorus. Banning fertilizer on snow U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown, of Ohio, plans to reintroduce the Clean Water Affordability Act, which would direct ad-ditional funding to communities in Ohio to eliminate combined sewer overfl ows, which contribute towards harmful algal blooms. A bill that bans fertilizer and manure from being spread on snow and frozen ground in the western basin of Lake Erie, where they are at risk of running off of fi elds when the snow melts and fl owing into the lake, is also expected to be reintro-duced this year in the Ohio Legislature. “We shouldn’t be applying fertilizer and manure on frozen and snow covered

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ground,” said Dr. Jeff Reutter, Ohio State University’s director of Ohio Sea Grant and Stone Laboratory. “We should have soil tests for all of the fi elds to know how much phosphorous is there, and not apply more than is needed.” Last November, State Rep. Michael Ashford (D-Toledo) announced $7,350,000 in state funding for the Toledo-Lucas County Port Authority’s Healthy Lake Erie Initiative Sustainable Sediment Management Pilot project, which will de-velop an alternative to open lake dumping of dredge materials in the Toledo Harbor, which has had a negative impact on the health of Lake Erie. The project calls for the dredge materials to be rerouted to a Brownfi eld site near the harbor for future agricultural use. “It’s important that the state makes all necessary attempts to improve the condi-tions of Lake Erie,” said Ashford, “whether it be through dredge management, microcys-tin testing, or manure run-off regulations. The initiative is a step in the right direction to help us protect the long-term sustainabil-ity of our state’s greatest natural resource.” Open-lake dredge dumping currently results in approximately 800,000 to 1.25 million cubic yards of sediment being de-posited into Lake Erie each year. The Toledo-Lucas County Port Authority will manage the project in conjunction with Toledo, the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency and Department of Natural Resources. Federal manager Researchers who have been studying algal blooms want the phosphorus going into the lake cut by 40 percent. Various projects receiving state and federal fund-ing to address the problem are a step in the right direction, they say. But there must also be targets and goals set for any real progress to be made. And someone has to lead the effort. In the 1960s, the governors of Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, New York and Pennsylvania met to address severe pollu-tion in Lake Erie. They set targets to reduce phosphorus from wastewater treatment

plant discharges, industrial waste, and phosphates in laundry detergent. In 1965, Ohio Gov. James Rhodes became a leader coordinating the efforts of all fi ve gover-nors, which led to the successful restora-tion of the lake. Many point to the current recovery efforts of the Chesapeake Bay on the east coast as a model for Lake Erie to follow. Pres. Barack Obama issued an executive or-der in 2009 that called for federal agencies to work with nearby states to come up with a recovery plan for Chesapeake Bay, which has been fouled by pollution for decades. Delaware, Maryland, New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia, West Virginia, and the District of Columbia were required to provide detailed plans on how to reduce nitrogen, phosphorus and sediment fl ow-ing into the bay. The U.S. EPA holds the jurisdictions accountable for results along the way. Pollution controls must be in place by 2025. Toledo Mayor C. Michael Collins went to Washington, D.C., after the water crisis seeking a similar executive order for the re-covery of Lake Erie. Sandy Bihn, executive director of the Lake Erie Waterkeeper Association, said a coordinated effort, similar to Gov. Rhodes’ leadership 50 years ago, and the Chesapeake Bay recovery plan, is needed. “I would like to see the fi ve Lake Erie governors convene and agree on reductions from each of their states of nutrients and sediments going into the lake. And I would like the governors to work with a federal manager to make that happen,” she said. “A federal manager would pull together all the data and information, and track the progress or lack of progress that we’re mak-ing. There’s all this money coming in trying to help the lake. But right now, there’s no overall plan, no targets, and no manager.” Bill Myers, who farms 2,000 acres of fi elds located three-quarters of a mile from Lake Erie, is worried government offi cials are reacting to the water crisis by “throw-ing” money at the problem without a clear sense of direction. “It’s stupid to just take a shotgun and blow it out there and hope some-thing works,” said Myers, who is also vice president of the Lake Erie Waterkeeper Association and president of the Lucas County Farm Bureau. “We should really understand what needs to change, and spend the money there to get the fastest recovery. I’m afraid we’re not doing that. We’re just getting money from the govern-ment without any leadership or targets on where it needs to go.” Whether or not there is a coordinated effort to clean up the lake, many agree it will take years to accomplish. “When I look at cleaning up Lake Erie, there’s a lot of work ahead, but it’s possible,” said Tim Davis, a harmful algae specialist with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Great Lakes Environmental Research Lab in Ann Arbor, Michigan. “There’s no short term solution. We’re going to be dealing with harmful algal blooms for the next de-cade. We would love to mitigate the algal blooms next year, but it’s not a reality.”


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The conviction of a third man involved in a 2013 robbery at an Oak Harbor resi-dence has been upheld by the Ohio Sixth District Court of Appeals. The court affi rmed the May 2014 deci-sion of the Ottawa County Common Pleas Court that sentenced Travis Edwards to two consecutive 18-month prison terms for at-tempted robbery and attempted intimida-tion of a witness. In December, the appeals court upheld the 11-year and 14-year sentences imposed on Cody McClanahan and Paul Thebeau, III, respectively. The cases stemmed from a Dec. 5 2013 robbery at the home of James Edens, Jr., who was in the home at the time with his sons Jimmy Edens, Ryan DeVincent and Kevin Edens.

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withdrawing his not guilty plea and plead-ing guilty. He was sentenced to 18-months on each conviction, which were to be served consecutively, and pay restitution of $570.61. Edwards contended in his appeal that the co-defendants had engaged in the vio-lence at the home and maximum sentences were not warranted in his case, noting the trial court hadn’t taken into account that he had no prior criminal record and didn’t di-rectly infl ict physical harm. The appeals court rejected his appeal, fi nding that under state law a fourth degree felony is punishable a prison term of six to 18 months and the trial court made the required fi ndings at the sentencing hearing and incorporated them into its sentencing judgment entry. “It committed no error in imposing consecutive sentences,” the appeals court wrote.

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The 2015-2016 small game hunting seasons were proposed to the Ohio Wildlife Council on Jan. 14, according to the Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR). Hunting season date proposals are pre-pared by the ODNR Division of Wildlife and maintain many traditional opening dates. Proposals concerning Ohio’s white-tailed deer hunting season will be present-ed at the next council meeting on Feb. 11.Proposed 2015 hunting season dates are: • Sept. 1 - Squirrel and dove hunting• Oct. 24-25 and Oct. 31-Nov.1 -Youth small game hunting seasons statewide• Nov. 6 - Cottontail rabbit, ring-necked pheasant and bobwhite quail The proposed open counties for quail hunting remain the same as last season: Adams, Athens, Brown, Butler, Clermont,

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County Fish and Game Association club-house in Xenia. Comments will also be accepted on-line at wildohio.gov. The online form will be available until March. Directions to the open houses can be found at wildohio.gov or by calling 800-WILDLIFE (945-3543). A statewide hearing on all of the proposed rules will be held at the ODNR Division of Wildlife’s District One offi ce on March 19, at 9 a.m. The offi ce is located at 1500 Dublin Road, Columbus, O. 43215. Council meetings are open to the pub-lic. Individuals who want to provide com-ments on a topic that is currently being considered by council are asked to register at least two days prior to the meeting by calling 614-265-6304. All comments are re-quired to be three minutes or less.

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Tensions over recent fi nancial mis-steps left Oak Harbor Village Council on edge Tuesday night. Councilwoman Donna Wendt-Elliot kicked off the lively debate by accusing Mayor Bill Eberle of being aware of the Northern Manufacturing departure and not informing council sooner to plan for the fi -nancial hit. The mayor announced at the fi rst meet-ing of January that Northern Manufacturing, one of the only major industries within corporate limits, will be moving most of its Locust Street operations to Lakewinds Industrial Park where it will consolidate with its other operations. A new tax abate-ment program initiated by Ottawa County helped move the project along. “I hate to start the year out with de-rogatory comments. But I’m frustrated,” explained Wendt-Elliot, who said a num-ber of people had told her the mayor knew about the issue months ago. “We need to do something now,” she added about creating a similar Community Reinvestment Area for tax abatement that will make the village competitive. The village is on track now to create a zone of its own that will benefi t both com-mercial and residential improvements, the mayor said. Eberle then defended his actions, not-ing that he had not received offi cial notifi -cation from the county until Dec. 2. Northern leaders had talked about tax abatement with the village in the fall, he said. But it simply came down to the Smith family decision that three factories spread out in central Ottawa County were no lon-ger practical. They opted, he said, to move where the company can expand. They even had sale offers from abutting property own-ers in Oak Harbor but decided to go another way with their business plan. As far as waiting after notifi cation to alert council, Eberle said he did that “out

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of respect to Northern. We did not drop the ball here.” In the fi nal days, Salem Township trustees had not yet approved the tax abate-ment zone and “Northern did not want their project jeopardized,” he said. He also insisted he could not fi nd a valid reason to discuss the issue in execu-tive session. Councilwoman Sue Rahm took is-sue with that. She claimed the vote on the health insurance and other items could have gone a different way had council been aware of the pending move and revenue loss. Council approved the health plan with little changes other than premium in-creases that were going to force a $50,000 hit the village agreed to absorb. “You are missing the point,” Wendt-Elliot insisted. “There is no communica-tion.” “Donna,” the mayor said sternly. “I could not tell you that Northern was leav-ing the village.” Northern is not the only issue but it punctuates the problem, she said. The mayor later outlined ways to rev up communication between council and residents. A community newsletter is nearly complete and the village website is under reconstruction. The website revamp will let residents do things like get zoning

applications on line instead of physically walking to the administration building. Adam Snyder, a landlord in the vil-lage, stood and defended the mayor. He acknowledged there was probably little he could do in this case and was bound to maintain a certain amount of privacy for Northern. However, the village itself has not al-ways been business friendly in its actions, Snyder claimed. He pointed to the high electric, sewer and water bills. He also gave examples of reported nasty comments made to business owners. “The only thing left is the 66 business-es through the Water Street area,” Snyder said. The village needs to give them more attention, he added. “If we are running short in Oak Harbor, maybe we are making bad decisions,” Snyder said of the fi nancial strife mounting over the last three years. Rahm took the opportunity to question Eberle about the mayor’s decision to give workers the day off after both Christmas and New Year’s Day, essentially giving them a four-day weekend. “Yes I did,” the mayor said. “It has been done for years.” Rahm said the personnel policy dic-tates people need to work the day before or after a holiday to receive holiday pay. As for the extra day, they all have earned vaca-tion time. Let them use that, she said. “My feeling was it was tradition,” the mayor said again. “It’s getting to be a tradition to be broke in the village,” Rahm countered. Eberle noted he tried to lift morale among employees who have not received any of their step raises in two years because of budget problems. “It was a nice gesture,” Rahm said but the village budget can’t keep absorbing these added costs and expect to stay afl oat. “I think they would be grateful to have a job rather than a day off.” Cuts need to made, Rahm said. “Am I the only one that sees that?”

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Demolishing the last smokestackDemolition crews continue to take down the third and fi nal smokestack at the former Toledo Edision power plant on Front Street, East Toledo. The city's original plan was to keep the smokestack and turn it into a lighthouse motif, but decided the structure was too small. (Press photo by Ken Grosjean)

“Beat the Heat” Warmer weather may seem very far off, but Humane Ohio wants pet parents to “Beat the Heat” by spaying their female cats in advance of their heat cycles and preventing unwanted litters from being born this spring. Animal shelters commonly refer to spring time as “kitten season” because that is when they receive the largest numbers of unwanted litters that are diffi cult to adopt. To help reduce the number of homeless cats born this spring, Humane Ohio is offering a special “Beat the Heat” promotion. Thanks to the PetSmart Charities grant, Humane Ohio will be able to spay 400 owned female cats at the special $20 rate dur-ing February. Spaying a female cat by four months before the fi rst heat cycle offers health benefi ts, including a reduced risk of certain reproductive cancers and infections. The “Beat the Heat” rate, which is less than the non-profi t organiza-tion’s normal low-cost spay price, is available to all residents of Ohio and Michigan. Cat parents who wish to take ad-vantage of this offer must mention the “Beat the Heat” promotion when they schedule their appointment. Availability is limited. Visit www.humaneohio.org or follow Humane Ohio on Facebook at www.facebook.com/humaneohio for more information or call 419-266-5607 to schedule an appointment.

Free tax help Legal Aid of Western Ohio, Inc. (LAWO) Mobile Benefi t Bank will offer free tax fi ling assistance to residents of Lucas, Wood, Fulton and Ottawa coun-ties from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. on the fol-lowing dates and locations: • Thursday, Feb. 5: Genoa Public Library, 602 West St., Genoa; • Saturdays, Feb. 7, March 7 and April 4: LAWO Offi ces, 525 Jefferson Ave., Toledo. Note: on weekends, free parking is available on downtown streets. Clinics are open for single fi lers whose adjusted gross income is less than $65,000 or joint fi lers whose ad-justed gross income is $95,000 or less. Call 419-724-0030 to schedule an ap-pointment. Those attending must bring a pho-to ID (i.e. Ohio driver’s license, state ID card); all income forms (W-2s, 1099’s, etc.); birth dates and Social Security number(s); last year’s tax documents; expense records (1098 forms, charita-ble contributions); and child care pro-vider’s EIN or SSN.

Tax forms advisory The Harris -Elmore and Genoa branch libraries recently received no-tifi cation that the Internal Revenue Service. because of budget cuts, will only be shipping forms for the 1040, 1040A, and 1040EZ schedules. No in-structions will be shipped to the librar-ies. Patrons may view and download forms from IRS.gov/forms, or call 1 800 829 3676 or email IRS.gov/order-forms to request forms to be delivered by mail. Patrons are welcome to use library computers to fi nd and print forms, or make copies from a notebook contain-ing reproducible forms. The fee for printing is 15 cents per copy. Mobile Benefi t Counselors from Legal Aid of Western Ohio, Inc., will be available at the Genoa Branch Library Thursday, Feb. 5 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. for a tax clinic. The service is free of charge for eligible fi lings. Please con-tact Ed Newman of the Benefi t Bank at 419 930 2367 or [email protected] to make an appointment.

Rail crossing meeting Sen. Randy Gardner, who repre-sents Ottawa County in the state sen-ate, and Ottawa County Sheriff Steve Levorchick will co-host a public forum on issues relating to blocked railroad crossings Monday, Jan. 26 at 6 p.m. at the Allen-Clay Joint Fire District head-quarters, 3155 N. Genoa Clay Center Rd. Local government offi cials and fi re and safety personnel will be on hand to address questions and provide input on the subject.

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Constance Julia(Boyle) Gallup, 82,of Elmore, Ohiodied Thursday,January 15, 2015 atMercy St. CharlesHospital, Oregon,Ohio. She was bornFebruary 19, 1932in Boston, MA tothe late Walter andEileen (Gilligan)

Boyle. She attended the Cambridge High &Latin School in Cambridge, MA. Following27 years of service, she retired from theLuther Home of Mercy, Williston, OH. Shewas also a Cub Scout Leader in El Paso, TXfor four years. Constance truly enjoyedmaking a day of shopping. Sometimes beingthe only one in the store keeping it open.

Survivors include her husband, Charles F.Gallup of Elmore; daughter, Connie (Mark)Frey of Gibsonburg, OH; sons, William(Charlene) O'Connell of Swanton, OH;Kevin (Wendy) O'Connell of New SmyrnaBeach, FL and John Gallup of Elmore, OH;sister, Louise Caiazzo of Wells, MA; step-children, Gary (Babette) Gallup ofPerrysburg, OH; Rhonda (Stan) Duncan ofWoodville, OH; Karon Gallup of Perrysburg,OH and Phillip Gallup of Maumee, OH;grandchildren, Michael, Tara, Stacy, Kyle,Kevin, Kara, Zachary, Brian, Nathan, Kaylar,Brendan, Boston, Luna, Breanna, andSpencer; great-grandchildren, Nolan,Alivianna, Scarlett, Emerson, Gibson andHudson. She was preceded in death by herfirst husband, William O'Connell; brother,Walter Boyle, and sister, Mary O'Hare.

Arrangements were handled by CrosserFuneral Home & Cremation Services,Elmore-Genoa Chapel. Funeral serviceswere held at Grace Evangelical LutheranChurch, Elmore, with the Rev. Mark Wentzofficiating. Burial followed at WestwoodCemetery, Woodville, OH. Memorialcontributions may be made to Breast CancerResearch. Online condolences may be sharedwith the family at:

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Bay AreaCredit UnionDonates $8,000 Bay Area Credit Union posed a challenge to community members in 2014 – save $280,000 in loan inter-est and help local charities. The com-munity saved a total of $343,801.26 in loan interest and, as a result, three local charities will receive a total of $8,000. The Community Challenge is an annual campaign that strives to save the community money while benefi ting lo-cal charities. This year’s campaign ran from April 23 to Dec. 31, 2014, and had four participating charities – Jerusalem Township Food Pantry, James “Wes” Hancock Oregon Senior Center, Vail Meadows Therapeutic Riding Center and Toledo Animal Shelter. “We are overwhelmed by the suc-cess of our fi rst community challenge. We were able to save more for our members and donate to three worthy charities, which is what our credit union philosophy is truly about,” Val Strickland, Marketing Director of Bay Area Credit Union, said. “We helped over 100 members save on their loan interest by refi nancing them at better rates.” Community members voted for the charity to receive the largest donation. First place, Jerusalem Township Food Pantry, will receive $5,000. Second place, Vail Meadows Therapeutic Riding Center, will receive $2,000, and Third place, Toledo Animal Shelter, will receive $1,000. “We are so honored to be able to help all of these charities. Any dona-tion truly goes a long way, and we know our money is going to a great cause and helping a lot of people and animals in need,” Strickland said. For more information on the 1st Community Challenge or to get in-volved, visit www.BayAreaSaves.org.

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• Cynthia Lynn Garcia, 232 Heffner, Toledo, 90 days CCNO, $50 court costs and fi nes, attempt to commit an offense.• Joseph T. Buehler, 21420 W. Holts, Genoa, $142 court costs and fi nes, polluting state land or water.• Cynthia Lynn Garcia, 232 Heffner, Toledo, 180 days CCNO, 90 days suspended, $162 court costs and fi nes, petty theft.• Lamar Rashaud Robinson, 252 Graham, Toledo, 180 days CCNO, 170 days suspend-ed, license suspended 180 days, $337 court costs and fi nes, possession of drugs.• Perry Martin Bishop, 20906 Lemoyne, Luckey, 180 days Correction Center of Northwest Ohio (CCNO), 40 days suspend-ed, license suspended two years, operating a motor vehicle under the infl uence.• Christopher Maurice Cross, 1933 Metz, Oregon, 180 days CCNO, 177 days sus-pended, license suspended one year, $746 court costs and fi nes, operating a motor ve-hicle under the infl uence.• Ronald T. Davies, 1491 Sabra, Toledo, 180 days CCNO, 177 days suspended, li-cense suspended one year, $796 court costs and fi nes, operating a motor vehicle under the infl uence.• Steven L. Schermerhorn, 2148 Woodford, Toledo, 90 days CCNO, 90 days suspended, $187 court costs and fi nes, receiving stolen property.• Jesecca Lynn Burgess, 2447 Ridgeway, Oregon, 30 days CCNO, 10 days suspend-ed, $337 court costs and fi nes, domestic violence.• Michael L. Joseph, 133 N. Norden, Oregon, 30 days CCNO, 24 days suspend-ed, $187 court costs and fi nes, disorderly conduct.• Larry Jermaine Johnson, 6371 Garden, Maumee, 180 days CCNO, 150 days sus-pended, $187 court costs and fi nes, passing bad checks.• Markella Monique Lawrence, 420 Elizabeth, Toledo, 90 days CCNO, 80 days suspended, $162 court costs and fi nes, at-tempt to commit an offense.


Seven months after hearing a pro-posal from Wood County Sheriff Mark Wasylyshyn to have his offi ce handle emergency dispatching service for Lake Township, the township trustees have agreed to contract with him. The trustees Tuesday approved a reso-lution to contract with the sheriff for four years at an annual cost of $88,003. The contract will go into effect April 1. A contract the township has with LifeStar is scheduled to expire at that time. Under that agreement, the company staffs the township’s Lemoyne Road dispatch-ing facility and answers calls for the town-ship, including the villages of Millbury and Walbridge and City of Rossford. Rossford late last year opted to con-tract with the sheriff’s department and Walbridge council is close to approving an ordinance to have the sheriff provide the service. Police Chief Mark Hummer said it wasn’t economically feasible for the town-ship to provide its own service and he didn’t receive replies from Perrysburg Township and City of Northwood for re-quests for bids for them to provide the ser-vice. The contract with LifeStar is for $262,000 a year and costs were apportioned between Rossford, Walbridge and the town-ship based on call volume. Those three entities and City of Northwood had been studying the forma-tion of a regional dispatching format but the sheriff’s offers appear to be lower than what it would cost to fund a regional sys-tem. “In an ideal world we would provide our own service,” Chief Hummer said, add-ing that “economies of scale” make that op-tion impractical. “If there were a way we could justify it to the taxpayers I’d be up here pitching it,” he said. Fire Chief Bruce Moritz also said he fa-

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vored a regional system but with Rossford pulling out it wasn’t feasible. A resident, Henry Buzza, who recent-ly retired from the Lake Township Fire Department after 53 years, questioned the capability of the county’s dispatching sys-tem. Buzza said he was monitoring 9-1-1 calls from his home last weekend and heard some confusion among dispatchers handling calls for a fi re in the Village of Pemberville. In June, Sheriff Wasylyshyn presented a proposal to the township trustees and said his department’s communication divi-sion is staffed by 16 full-time dispatchers working 12-hour shifts. There are four dis-patchers working per shift, including one supervisor. It costs the county about $65,210 a year for a full-time dispatcher, he said. If depart-ment personnel receive pay raises, those costs would be passed through to the enti-ties contracting for the service. In other business, the trustees agreed to pay $8,075 to the City of Perrysburg for the township’s share of an Assistance to Firefi ghters Grant that the city, town-ship, cities of Northwood and Rossford and Perrysburg Township jointly received from the Federal Emergency Management Agency. Perrysburg was the lead agency for the grant. Chief Moritz said the township’s share will be used to purchase an antenna struc-ture registration system site that will allow the township to not have to pay user fees to Lucas County for its 800 megahertz radio system. The township has been paying about $15,000 annually, he said.


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You have the power to attract people and circumstances into your life. This hap-pens either intentionally or inadvertently. You can utilize conscious strategies to at-tract what you want. If you don’t, your sub-conscious may work to attract those things you don’t want. Which approach you use is your choice. You attract what you think about. Your self-talk infl uences your thoughts. Are you aware of what you are attracting? Do you say to yourself, “Why do these things al-ways happen to me?” You have to look closely at the cause and effect relationship you may be creating. Only think about the things you want. Don’t think about things you want to avoid. For example, concentrating about being healthy is a good approach because “healthy” is the focus of your thoughts. However, when constantly saying to your-self, “I don’t want to get sick,” sick is what is constantly heard by your mind. Ironically, the result of this avoidance strategy is actu-ally attracting sickness. Thinking about what you want to avoid is a common approach. It’s very easy to change it to a positive strategy by always phrasing your intentions to state what you want to attract. Your mind strives to bring your focus to reality. It doesn’t pay attention to qualifying phrases such as, “don’t want.” Maintain a conscious awareness of your thoughts. Replace negative thoughts with positive ones. Substitute thoughts of avoid-ance with thoughts of attraction. Practicing this positive intention is highly effective. Your expectations impact what you attract. For example, expecting health

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and happiness yields the opposite results of expecting sickness and unhappiness. Expectations are infl uenced by experience. The tendency is to expect more of whatever you are used to. This creates an endless cy-cle which can only be broken by expecting different results. Do you expect good things? Do you ex-pect all will work out? Or do you expect a constant barrage of problems? Your mind is always working on strategies to enable you to meet your expectations. Good expecta-tions or bad, your mind attracts without discrimination. How you deal with problems also im-pacts what you attract. Do you believe there is a solution for every problem or are you

adept in fi nding problems in every situ-ation? People actually create problems through the fi rm belief of their existence. Of course problems exist. When you are focused on solutions instead, the answers you need are attracted. Fixating on fears often attracts the very things you are afraid of. This process creates an endless cycle which reinforces your fears. Then, when your fears materi-alize, you become even more afraid. This produces an obsession fueled by your self-fulfi lling prophesy. An attitude of abundance attracts more of whatever you feel you already possess. Conversely, a mindset of lack re-pels whatever you would like to attract. This is a frustrating predicament. How do you attract what you need when you don’t have enough of it? The key is cultivating an attitude of gratitude. When you are grateful for what you do have, you put your mind into at-traction mode. If you are resentful for what is lacking, you mind slips into re-pelling mode. Desperation blocks attain-ment. Regardless of where you are right now, be thankful for the positive elements in your life. Take a close look at what you are now attracting. If you are unhappy with your fi ndings, make a commitment to change your outlook. If you believe you can al-ter your outlook, you will. If you are con-vinced you can’t, you won’t. Since there is a proven relationship between your thoughts and attraction, changing your thoughts is a prerequisite to attracting more of what you desire.

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For a moment, four years ago, it seemed that dictators in the Middle East would soon be a thing of the past. Back then, it looked like the United States would have to make good on its declared support for democracy, as mil-lions of Tunisians, Egyptians, Bahrainis, Yemenis, and others rose up to reject their repressive leaders. Many of these autocrats enjoyed sup-port from Washington in return for provid-ing “stability.” Yet even the collapse of multiple gov-ernments failed to upend the decades-long U.S. policy of backing friendly dictators. Washington has doubled down on main-taining a steady supply of weapons and funding to governments willing to support U.S. strategic interests, regardless of how they treat their citizens. Four years after Egyptian dictator Hosni Mubarak’s ouster, for example, the country once again has a president with a military pedigree and an even lower toler-ance for political opposition than his pre-decessor. Mass arrests and hasty convictions of political activists — over 1,000 of whom have been sentenced to death — have re-awakened the fear that Egyptians thought had vanished for good after Mubarak was ousted and democratic elections were held. When the Egyptian military — led by now-president Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi — de-

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posed the democratically elected president Mohamed Morsi in July 2013, the Obama administration wavered about whether it would suspend military aid to Egypt, which U.S. law requires in the case of a coup. Yet despite some partial and tempo-rary suspensions, the U.S. government con-tinued to send military hardware. Now that Sisi heads a nominally civil-ian government — installed in a sham elec-

tion by a small minority of voters — all restrictions on U.S. aid have been lifted, including for military helicopters that are used to intimidate and attack protesters. As Secretary of State John Kerry prom-ised a month after Sisi’s election, “The Apaches will come, and they will come very, very soon.” In the tiny kingdom of Bahrain, meanwhile, the demonstrations for con-stitutional reform that began in February 2011 continue, despite the government’s attempts to silence the opposition with everything at its disposal — from bird shot to life imprisonment. Throughout it all, Washington has treated Bahrain like a respectable ally. Back in 2011, for instance, just days after Bahraini security forces fi red live ammunition at protesters in Manama — an attack that killed four and wounded many others — President Barack Obama praised King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa’s “commitment to reform.” Neither did the White House object when it was notifi ed in advance that 1,200 troops from Saudi Arabia would enter Bahrain to clear the protests in March 2011. Since then, there’s been a steady drip of troubling news. A State Department report from 2013 acknowledged that Bahrain revokes the citizenship of promi-nent activists, arrests people on vague charges, tortures prisoners, and engages in “arbitrary deprivation of life.” (That’s bureaucratese for killing people.) And what have the consequences

been? Back in 2012, international pressure forced the United States to ban the sale of American-made tear gas to Bahraini security forces. And last August, some U.S. military aid was cut off after the regime expelled an American diplomat for meeting with mem-bers of an opposition party. But that’s it. Delaying shipments of tanks, jets, and tear gas amounts to little more than a slap on the wrist when the Fifth Fleet of the U.S. Navy remains headquartered outside Bahrain’s capital. And Bahrain’s participa-tion in air raids against the Islamic State has only strengthened the bond between the re-gime and the White House. Indeed, the crisis in Iraq and Syria has breathed new life into the military-fi rst ap-proach that has long dominated Washington’s thinking about the Middle East. Any govern-ment willing to join this new front in the “War on Terror” is primed to benefi t both from American largesse and a free pass on repression. People power in the Middle East must be matched by popular demand here in the United States to shake the foundations of our foreign policy. With a new year upon us, it’s our turn to face down fear and insist that an-other path is possible.

Amanda Ufheil-Somers is the assis-tant editor of Middle East Report, pub-lished by the Middle East Research and Information Project. MERIP.org. Distributed via OtherWords.org.

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The local economy is slowly improv-ing, but if we don’t clean up Lake Erie we doom ourselves. That was the message six public of-fi cials brought to members of the Eastern Maumee Bay Chamber of Commerce at their annual State of the Communities Breakfast, Thursday at ProMedica Bay Park Hospital. Bernie Quilter, Lucas County Clerk of Courts, started the meeting off on a positive note. He cited court statistics have shown a steady increase in the economy since the Big Recession of 2007-2008. Vehicle sales, both new and used, which had hit a low this century in 2009 at 101,337, increased to 122,606 in 2014. It was the fi fth straight year for an increase. At the same time, foreclosures, which had hit a high of 8,113 in 2009, have shown a steady decline to 4,138 in 2014. “The sad thing is when you add up the numbers more than 17,000 foreclosures were fi led since 2006,” he said. “That’s like driving through the City of Oregon, part of East Toledo and a little bit of Northwood where everyone here lost their homes. The foreclosure crisis did not discriminate. It was not just the inner city. It was Oregon. It was Sylvania. It was Monclova. It was a virus that spread real quick.” This economic rebound has also had a positive effect on families. Divorces, disso-

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lutions and domestic violence cases are all down compared to 2009. “We’re back to work, we love each oth-er…we’re happy to be home,” he quipped. Before giving the fl oor to Joe Kiss, Jerusalem Township trustees, Quilter put his view of the recovery in perspective. “This is a slow improvement in the county, this is not a rocket that shot out and said, `we’re out of this recession.’ This is like an airplane taking off. Lucas County is always one of the last areas to recover in the state of Ohio. But, we’re slowly improving and the economy is looking good.” Joe Kiss touted the township’s efforts in 2014 to focus on road repair and cleaning ditches and replacing culverts to improve drainage. He was followed by Mike Beazley, Oregon city administrator. Beazley said revenue is up so the city is investing in infrastructure. The two big projects are the investment in the water plant to supply additional water to the $800 million Oregon Clean Energy Project and a $13 million upgrade to add ozone in the

pretreatment to combat the toxic algae that caused Toledo’s water crisis in August. “We are the place that got it right about algae last year, but some of that was being good and smart and some of it was being lucky…We want to make sure Oregon is the best example along the lake and make sure we are not dumping nutrients into the lake,” he said. The other is a continued focus on Navarre Avenue, which Beazley called the “Main Street of our region this side of the river.” The goal is to make Navarre safer, more attractive and easier to access for consum-ers. Beazley also said the city will start engineering for a north-south connector for the city’s bike trails. It will run north from Brown Road to Seaman along the power line easement adjacent to Walmart on Navarre. Bob Anderson, Northwood city admin-istrator, said demolition of the Woodville Mall is progressing and the city is work-ing with two owners, one on the east coast and one on the west coast, to tear down the remaining two buildings. He also said the building that once housed Hills Department Store on the corner of S.R. 51 and S.R. 579 has been sold. Ed Kolanko, Walbridge mayor, said the biggest news in his village was secur-

ing $300,000 to $350,000 in grants for roads and parks. Anthony Reams, president of the Toledo Metropolitan Council of Governments, reminded members that the economic recovery could be negatively impacted if we don’t take care of the envi-ronment. He said, “Maumee Bay State Park was built as a fl agship park for the state system. In the early years that beach was closed up to 50 days a year. But, because folks got together to make major improve-ments to septic systems, to ditch fl ows to retention areas, last year it (the beaches) closed about 14 times. That’s what happens when people get together to work on these problems. That was fecal matter, now our problem is the algal blooms and phospho-rus.” Reams said TMACOG is working with its government members to address the phosphorus issue. “We have fresh water. Twenty percent of the fresh water on earth is in the Great Lakes…But, to put it in perspective, if I’m sitting in Dallas, L.A. or Seattle and try-ing to relocate a business and I hear about Toledo’s water system being shut down, I’m not going to turn a page and say but it’s okay to go to Walbridge or Oregon, I’m eliminating the entire region.”

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nior at Ohio State who has never even at-tended an NFL game, will not only get to see the Feb. 1 extravaganza at University of Phoenix Stadium in Glendale, Ariz., in per-son, he’ll be right down on the fi eld.

Avers, a 2011 Woodmore graduate who will earn a bachelor’s degree in sustainable plant systems with a specialization in turf grass science from OSU in May, was chosen by The Toro Company as this year’s winner of the annual Toro Super Bowl Sports Turf Training Program.

Avers will be on hand at Super Bowl XLIX to assist the grounds crew in prepa-ration for the game. Since 1967, Toro has partnered with the NFL in providing equip-ment to prepare the game fi eld and multi-ple practice fi elds leading up to the Super Bowl.

Toro and the NFL established the Super Bowl Sports Turf Training Program in 2003 in order to “recognize one student who has shown exemplary skill in turf manage-ment.” The program encourages emerging sports turf professionals to practice their craft by assisting the grounds crew for the NFL’s signature event.

The winner of this year’s Toro training program was announced on Nov. 21, and Avers got the call.

“I saw an unknown name come up on my phone,” he said, “and I knew that was the day they were going to announce the winner. It was 5:40 p.m. I had almost giv-en up. The phone rang and they asked how I was doing. I said ‘pretty good’ and they said, ‘Well, we’re going to make your day a little bit better” – and they sure did.”

Avers said he heard about the Toro program last year, but he didn’t feel he was qualifi ed enough to enter.

“This year I felt, ‘yeah, I should do that,’ ” Avers said. “I fi lled out (the applica-tion) and talked with my professors. I wait-

Woodmore graduate Zak Avers Super Bowl-bound

ed anxiously to get the call.”Every applicant who entered the Toro

Super Bowl Sports Turf Training Program had to undergo an extensive application process. Avers said he penned a a 500-word essay “on where I see myself going in the turf management industry, how I got there and how I plan to continue to go farther with my goals.”

Avers also got a letter of reference from his “boss” in the Ohio State athletics de-partment, Brian Gimble. Avers is a member of OSU’s turf management team that works on all of the fi elds around campus.

“Pretty much any natural or synthet-ic surface that Ohio State practices on is part of our crew,” Avers said. “My essay (to Toro) fl owed pretty free. I like writing and I enjoyed writing it. I felt pretty confi dent in it. Everybody else’s confi dence in me is what boosted my confi dence. When the call came, I almost drove the truck through Kroger’s front door.”

Avers became interested in turf man-agement a few years ago, when he helped his parents, Steve and Peggy, with their

small local mowing service (G.V.V.B.). Peggy also runs an ice cream store in Elmore, and Steve works full time at a ma-chine company.

“I helped them with that (G.V.V.B.) as a job making money,” Zak said. “The more I worked, it became more than just a job. It became a passion. I wanted to do my best to make a lawn look good with just a mower and a string trimmer.”

In addition to his work at Ohio State, Avers was head turf specialist at Schedel’s Arboretum and Gardens in Elmore, and he has also completed internships at Scotts Lawn Service and with the Arsenal Football Club in England.

Avers said he called just about every-one he knew after Toro informed him that he was going to be a part of the Super Bowl turf management team.

“Over the next four hours I was calling all my next of kin to tell them what hap-pened,” he said. “My mom was super excit-ed. I think she just about cried. She might have been more shocked and excited than I was.”

Avers, who will fl y out of Columbus for Arizona on Jan. 24, will have his air fare and room and board paid for by Toro. He said he will be one of about 25 sports turf managers from various professional lev-els, including the NFL and Major League Baseball, in charge of getting the University of Phoenix Stadium fi eld ready for the Pro Bowl on Jan. 25.

“I’ll be on the turf crew, just like all the professional managers,” Avers said. “They said they’re going to throw me right into the mix. I will work the Pro Bowl and then we’ll rip up the end zones and the center of the fi eld, because they’ll have different logos. We then replace the sod and put the new logos on (for the Super Bowl) and keep it looking that way from whenever we get it done until the Sunday of the game.”

Peggy Avers said that when Toro offi -cials contacted her son, “They told him to bring lots of work clothes and he wouldn’t need much else, because it pretty much takes them the whole week to prepare that fi eld. It sounds like he will actually be do-ing a lot of work on the fi eld while also meeting a lot of very important people in his fi eld.”

In a statement, Dale Getz, CSFM, sports fi elds and grounds sales manager at Toro said, “This is a very high-level train-ing experience for young turf professionals. We are proud that our partnership with the NFL continues to provide great exposure for emerging professionals in the turf in-dustry, and continues to provide opportu-nities to further develop their skills.”

Avers, who recently returned from the National Sports Turf Managers Association convention in Denver, will have plenty of stories to tell when he returns from Arizona next month.

“This will be the fi rst professional football game I see, and it will be the Super Bowl,” he said. “I’ve been joking that my career will only go down from here.”

Avers said he has a job lined up as a technician for the Northwood branch of Scotts Lawn Service after graduation.

“L incoln: The Constitution and the Civil War,” a traveling exhibition open-ing at the Owens Community College’s Terhune Art Gallery on Jan. 29, examines how President Abraham Lincoln used the Constitution to confront three intertwined crises of the Civil War – the secession of Southern states, slavery and wartime civil liberties. Lincoln is widely acknowledged as one of America’s greatest presidents, but his historical reputation is contested. Was he a calculating politician willing to ac-commodate slavery, or a principled leader

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Cardinal Stritch, First Solar develop internship program Cardinal Stritch Catholic High School has teamed up with First Solar to give students a head start on prepar-ing for careers in the fi eld of engineer-ing. The two have agreed on an intern-ship program that has students from Stritch spending fi ve days alongside engineers at First Solar. The experi-ence gives students the opportunity to see fi rsthand what an engineer does throughout the day. The internship also gives CSCHS students a chance to enhance the skills they learn in their engineering classes at the school, which are part of the STEMM (science, technology, engineering, math and medicine) initiative. “This is a great chance for our stu-dents to get real world experience at one of the top engineering companies in the Toledo area,” said Tim Zale, the STEMM Coordinator at Stritch. “The feedback we have received from stu-dents and First Solar has been very positive and we can’t wait to continue this relationship.” Students interested in the intern-ship program must complete an appli-cation – just like a real job – and write a short essay explaining why they want to be a part of the internship program with the Perrysburg-based company. The applications and responses are then reviewed and the top candidates are selected for the program. “First Solar is proud to partner with Cardinal Stritch Catholic High School in this endeavor,” said Jay Lake, manager of Manufacturing Training at First Solar. “It is our hope that partner-ships such as this will strengthen our bond with the community that we live and work in. Additionally, it is a privi-lege to enhance the learning of these skilled students and ultimately culti-vate Northwest Ohio.”

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Woodmore Local Schools will hold a ribbon-cutting ceremony and open house Sunday, Jan. 25 to celebrate the completion of the new Preschool-8th Grade Building at 800 W. Main St., Woodville. The public is invited to the event, which will be held from 1 to 3 p.m. A groundbreaking was held May 30, 2013 to begin construction of the new school on the property next to the old el-ementary building.

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Owens nursing graduates More than 70 Owens Community College students recently received pins from the Nursing Department for their aca-demic achievements. Registered nurse pinning recipients included Amanda Davis and Heather Stewart, of Northwood; Brittany Fisher of Helena; Alaina Haubert, of Genoa; Alexa McNamee of Walbridge and Anthony Sopko, of Genoa.

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The Oregon Schools Foundation (OSF) will hold their annual dinner dance and auction fundraiser Saturday, Jan. 31 at 6 p.m. at St. Michael’s Centre, 4001 Navarre Ave., Oregon. During the event, dubbed “Frost Fest,” Oregon school students trade their books and pencils for white gloves to serve din-ner and dessert to guests as a way to give back to the community. Funds raised support the Foundation and its many initiatives including class-room grants that bring innovation and cre-ativity to the classroom. In 2014, the foun-dation OSF worked with school district leaders to determine other areas to provide assistance, including possible initiatives that will expand elementary art programs, kindergarten readiness, the introduction of a new student welcoming program and high school course relevancy training. “This is an exciting time as we look at ways to expand our initiatives to benefi t the students of Oregon Schools directly,” said Brent Shimman, president of the Board of Trustees. “As our community and alumni become more aware of the Foundation’s mission and goals, our hope is to continue to be able to expand our support to the ar-eas of need.” The evening will include dinner and dessert by Michael’s Gourmet Catering, a silent auction, raffl es, dancing and door prizes. As one of the founders of Oregon Schools Foundation and owner of Michael’s Gourmet Catering, Michael Armstrong is excited to witness the prog-ress that the Foundation has been able to make. “It’s fun to see the connection when both businesses and individuals that want to support the students, get to do so and have the opportunity to designate that gift,” he said. The lead event sponsor is Mercy St. Charles Hospital. Through a new collabora-tion with Oregon City Schools and Mercy, The Mercy Health Care Center at OCS opened Nov. 11 on the Clay High School campus and has been providing pediatric services to the students of Oregon and the pediatric population of the surrounding area. Call 419-696-5533 for more informa-tion. Tickets to Frosh Fest are $40 each or $320 for a table of eight. Donations of auction items are being accepted. Call Amy Hansen at 419-836-1161 or email [email protected] for tickets or more information.

Theatre to present scholarships The Oregon Community Theatre, seek-ing to further theater and performing arts education on the college level, will award

Oregon stu-dents will be the servers for the evening at “Frost Fest,” the Oregon Schools Foun-dation’s annual fundraiser set for Jan. 31 at St. Michael’s Centre in Or-egon. (Submit-ted photo)

$500 to be used for tuition to two high school seniors who are pursuing a college degree in a fi eld related to theatrical arts through The Richard and Darlene Garand Scholarship. Scholarships will be given to the two applicants who best meet or exceed the fol-lowing requirements: • High school senior with a GPA of 2.5 or better; • Attending an accredited college in the fall of 2015 with a major or minor in a fi eld related to theatrical performing arts (theater, music, dance, theater production); • Must have theater experience (on stage or backstage) and must have been in-volved in at least one Oregon Community Theatre production, regular season or chil-dren’s summer theatre. The scholarship money must be used for tuition. Applications are available on-line at oregoncommunitytheatre.org.The deadline to apply is Feb. 28. Awards will be announced by April 1 and present-ed at our spring show.

Committee seeking donations The Eastwood After-Prom Committee is working on plans for this year’s drug- and alcohol-free post-prom event. The goal

is to provide a safe and enjoyable event for students to attend after the prom dinner/dance on Saturday, May 2. Because the after-prom is not a school-sponsored event, committee members are asking for donations of cash, gift cards or other items. To inquire about making a donation, call Chris Harper at 419-601-1398.

Small Business Basics The Ohio Small Business Development Center at Terra State Community College is offering free, two-hour “Small Business Basics” designed to answer questions about starting, buying or expanding a small busi-ness. Topics include the basics of name reg-istration, licensing, taxes, zoning, business entities, employees, insurance, fi nancing and business planning. Seminars will be offered: • Wednesday, Feb. 4, 9:30 to 11:30

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Kindergarten screening Genoa Area Local Schools will hold kindergarten registration and screening March 25, 26 and 27 at Genoa Elementary School. All parent information and registration forms will be given out at the screening ses-sion. To be eligible for kindergarten in the fall, a child must be 5 years old by Sept. 30. All children must be screened and reg-istered. To sign up, call Genoa Elementary at 419-855-7741, ext. 41203 after Feb. 11 to set up an appointment. Appointment times are 8-10 a.m.; 12:15-12:15 p.m. and 1:15-3:15 p.m. each day. Sessions are limited to 12 students. A parent or guardian must be present during the entire appointment. Children being screened should be dressed in comfortable clothing and tennis shoes.


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Waite senior guard Ramiah Henry leads the Toledo City League in scoring at 20.3 points per game, so you would think the Indians are winning right? Instead, 17th-year coach Manny May’s Indians just got their fi rst win of the season at Woodward on Jan. 16 after opening with 12 straight losses. However, this is quickly becoming a much different team. That is because Henry’s teammates are starting to believe in themselves, too. “The team is coming along,” May said. “I think they are starting to trust one another and going out and believing in what they are taught and doing that on the fl oor. As a player, (Henry) has done everything that we have asked her to do to be a four-year leader and playing varsity Division I basketball.” Henry scored a season high 35 points against Scott, but it was a loss. She is surrounded by two players who stand six feet tall or better, and the team has other legitimate scoring threats. During the win over Woodward, a team that defeated Waite early in the season, Henry was not the only player in double fi gures. “We relied on her so much early in the season to shoot the ball, dribble the ball, pass the ball, rebound the ball — every facet of the game, that everybody is start-ing to add on to it now,” May said. “I think some people who might be watching the basketball games might think she needs some help, and so I think it settling in for a lot of them that, ‘Hey, we need to start helping her out,’ and I think we’re starting to turn the corner on that. “They are getting better. They relied on her before to give her the ball every time. She passes them the ball, they pass it right back to her. I think now they are looking for their shot, they are looking to contribute, to set good screens, to go to the basket. Our post men and guards are driving to the bas-ket and playing team defense. The biggest thing is they were working on it, but ultim-ately, they have to get better and feel good about themselves.” It’s a mutual relationship on the court that is starting to pay dividends, and its Henry who initiates the trust. “She (Henry) has led them to places where she’s saying, ‘Hey, I trust you to make good shots. I’m trusting you to do this. I’d like you to trust me, but I also need you to score for me.’ I think that’s the feeling she is giving off to her teammates.” Of course, it’s affected Henry’s stats — some for the better, some for the worse. Last year Waite fi nished 7-15 (4-6, CL) and Henry averaged 11.2 points, 8.1 assists, and 2.9 steals. This year, Waite is 1-13 overall and 1-7 in the City. Her scoring average has nearly doubled, but because of her role on defense her steals are up to about fi ve per game. However, she has dropped in assists to 4.5, but May believes that number will start go-ing up now. Although she is 5-foot-8, her 7.7 rebounds are third in the City. May believes Henry, a 3.0 student, will defi nitely play college basketball somewhere, with the priority on an NCAA Division I school. “Once she gets her bases covered, the sky is the limit because she can pass, she can shoot, she can do the little things,” May said. “So, she can do the things she needs

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Waite senior guard Ramiah Henry scores some badly needed points in the Indians' non-league loss to Clay at the Eagles' fi eld house. (Press photo by Scott Grau/

to do at the next level. The point is all the other added things have to come in. I al-ready know that people are taking notice of her.” By playing collegiately, Ramiah would be following in the footsteps of her older sister, Kre’ana Henry (2013 Waite grad), who is a 6-0 sophomore forward for Moberly Area Community College (Mo.), where she majors in accounting. May says Ramiah has gotten to this point with her offseason work and the help of former Waite players. “She is a gym rat, bottom line,” May said. “She is a product of the north end, Emory Leverette Junior High School, and she came to Waite High School the last four

““So, she can do the things she needs to do at the next level.

years to get better and better.” In the summers, former Waite players like guard Kenya Middlebrooks (2008) often turn out to work with Coach May’s players at open gyms. It’s good for Middlebrooks, too, because May says she is also looking to advance her basketball career somewhere now. Others continued working with Henry during the offseason, like May’s coaching staff. May, who used to run an AAU pro-gram, was not available to help last sum-mer because of a family issue, but Ramiah and her teammates were still getting plenty of court time and instruction. “Hats off to my assistant coach, Alto King — he’s worked very tirelessly with

her and others this past summer, and she has worked tirelessly with him,” May said. “She has always worked hard. She is very attentive to what I say and she goes out and does it.” While Waite is not having the season it had when the Indians reached the D-I state championship game in 2010, the program still celebrates numerous graduates who have moved on to the next level or beyond. May guarantees it will continue with this year’s team. Taylor Works (2014) plays for Henry Ford Community College in Dearborn, Mich., Shareese Ulis (2007) is a graduate assistant coach at the University of Detroit, and 2014 Florida State graduate Natasha Howard (2010) is playing in Israel this win-ter while she prepares for her second sea-son with the Indiana Fever of the WNBA. “Kids are still coming out as products of this environment and going somewhere. Some others have had the opportunity to play college basketball, but have not taken advantage of that,” May said. “All of our kids have been working somewhere and striving to do something professional-wise. They are either part of furthering their education or part of an entrepreneurship in another way to doing things, so they are all doing great things.”


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Waite second, Genoa third at Gold MedalBy J. Patrick EakenPress Sports [email protected]

Waite fi nished as runner-up at its own 10-team Gold Medal Duals, fi nishing 8-1 and losing only to champion Napoleon, 65-12. Waite defeated Liberty Center (63-12), Bryan (63-12), Akron Ellet (60-18), third place Genoa (41-38), Westerville Central (60-17), Rossford (42-33), Springfi eld (58-20) and Mohawk (45-33). Waite grapplers James Johnson (145), Eduardo Jackson (160) and Jovon Sanson (220) fi nished 9-1, Josh Kendall (182) was 8-1, Krys Young (113) was 7-2, and Dylan Rathbun (106), Tristan Snider (120), Nick Jensen (152), Anthony Reigle (170) and Jesus Benavidez (Hwt.) were 6-3. Rathbun had the quickest fall in the event, pinning an opponent in nine seconds. Genoa senior wrestlers Devon Dunbar-Cannon (16-1) and Brandon Bates (31-4) propelled the Comets to the Bronze fi nish. Genoa went 7-2 in duals as a team while Dunbar-Cannon and Bates each went 9-0 individually by recording a team leading six falls apiece in the process. Genoa’s sophomore tandem of Adam Bates (26-9) and Matt Herrick (25-9) went 8-1. Junior Damian D’Emilio (31-6) went 7-2 while Thor Morrison (19-16) Seth Moore (21-13) and Zander Brown went 6-3. The Comets improve their dual record to 19-13 on the season. Team wins were over Bryan (52-15), Ellet (49-27), Rossford (37-33), Liberty Center (54-9), Mohawk (42-36), Springfi eld

(55-24) and Westerville Central (42-18). The two losses were to Waite and Napoleon (55-12). Genoa will next be in action at home on Jan. 28 as they host the opening round of the Division III state dual meet wrestling tournament.

Wolfe playing at Owens Genoa senior catcher Nick Wolfe has signed with the Owens Community College baseball program. Wolfe was first team All-Northern Buckeye Conference as a junior and he has led the team for three years in home runs, triples, and doubles. “Nick is one of those guys that if his jersey is not covered in dirt after the game he feels he didn’t work hard enough,” said Owens head baseball coach John Parisho.

“He has tools defensively behind the plate and offensively as a left-handed hitter. We are looking forward to seeing him in an Owens uniform.” Last spring as a junior at Genoa, Wolfe batted .280 (24 for 82) with 15 runs, three home runs, 25 RBIs, and five stolen bases and he was an Alan Miller Jewelers sec-ond team All-Press selection in voting by area coaches and media. Last summer, Nick became a second generational family member to play for Coach Don “Chopper” Schmeltz Pemberville American Legion team. His father, Eric, played for Freedom Post 183 in the late 1980s. Casey Gose, a former teammate of Wolfe’s at Genoa, is a freshman on the Owens baseball team this spring. As a Genoa senior last spring, Gose batted .345 (29 for 84) with 24 runs, two homers, 19 RBIs and 15 SB and was first team All-Press.

The 2015 Owens baseball team opens up the season March 7 in Orlando, Fla. (— Kylie Reynolds/Owens Sports Information)

Speedway to host meetingFremont Speedway will host an in-

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Drivers and team owners are encour-aged to attend the meeting and give input to Fremont Speedway Promoter Rich Farmer.

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For many basketball programs, you can count on one hand the amount of players that fi nish their career with at least 1,000 points. Accomplishing such a feat requires in-credible skill, talent, a fi rst-rate work ethic and good teammates and coaches as well as some luck. For those who are fortunate enough to reach the 1,000-point plateau, nearly all of them do so in their senior year. Last week, Oak Harbor junior forward Andrea Cecil joined that elite company when she scored 36 points in the Rockets’ come-from-behind 79-58 victory over Edison, giving her 1,005 career points. She offi cially joined the club on a drive to the basket late in the fourth quarter. She also broke the program’s single-game scoring record of 35 points that was previously held by Kelly Kretz and had stood for 33 years. Before her career is over, Cecil will almost certainly break the career scoring record of 1,152 points, currently owned by Amy Klavinger. For her accom-plishment, Cecil was honored before Oak Harbor’s game on Saturday against Huron. Cecil, who has committed to play bas-ketball collegiately at Bowling Green State University, joins three other players, Jan Harvey (Class of 1981), Alison (Golnick) Wolf (1990), who is currently the school’s assistant principal, and Klavinger (1986) as the Rockets’ only 1,000-point scorers. A gym rat, Cecil can often be found at one of Oak Harbor’s basketball courts during her free time, a sign of her work ethic. “Andrea works very hard at her craft,” Oak Harbor athletic director Drew Grahl said. “If one of our gyms is available in the summer time or during the offseason, it’s a good bet that she will be in there working on her game. It is people with that type of drive that you are very happy to see accom-plish great things. “She is a competitor. She hates to lose. She has committed herself to the game and puts a tremendous amount of time and ef-fort into basketball and that hard work is paying off.” Oak Harbor coach Tom Kontak, who was named the Division III Co-Coach of the Year in Ohio last season, says his star play-ers means a lot to the team. “Selfl ess is a good word to describe her,” Kontak said. “Andrea is our go-to player, and it’s been that way since her sophomore year and that’s put a lot of pres-sure on her. She scores points and has been very successful doing that. She provides leadership for the team. “She’s our go-to player and our most recognizable player. She’s helped put Oak Harbor girls’ basketball on the map and

Next for Rockets’ Andrea Cecil — catching career mark

given us statewide exposure.” Always one to credit others, Cecil is quick to turn the tables and praise her teammates and coaches. “It’s a great accomplishment, but I couldn’t have done it without the rest of the team,” Cecil said. She also spoke highly of Kontak, who took over at Oak Harbor during her fresh-man season. “He’s by far the best coach I’ve ever had,” she said. “I know he’d do anything for me. He’s not just a great coach. He’s a

great person, too.” Cecil, who plays AAU ball during the spring, says that is where she has a chance to really improve on her game, something she does while going up against some elite competition. Like most great athletes, Cecil has re-ceived guidance from her parents, who steered her toward athletics at a young age. Over the years, her father, Jack, and mother, Tari, have worked to enable their daughter to play sports year-round while driving her to and from sporting events, specifi cally for

AAU games and basketball camps, so that she could refi ne her skills and become a better player. Cecil started playing basketball at the age of fi ve at the YMCA in Fremont and was also part of former BGSU head coach Dan Dakich’s Junior Falcons basketball pro-gram at an early age. She burst onto the scene as a freshman, starting immediately while helping the Rockets go from 7-14 to 16-8. In the post-season, she scored 17 points and led the team back from a nine-point defi cit in the second half of Oak Harbor’s 39-38 victory over Perkins in the Division II sectional semifi nals. As a sophomore, she earned All-Ohio honors after averaging 19.6 points, 7.6 re-bounds and two steals and with the help of Emma Barney, Amanda Hetrick, Athena Eli, Maddy Rathbun, Emma Bergman and Allie Kuhn, led Oak Harbor to a 20-5 re-cord, a second-place fi nish in the Sandusky Bay Conference and an appearance in the Division III district fi nals where the Rockets fell in heartbreaking fashion to Wynford, 40-37, on a three-pointer at the buzzer. She also set the program’s single-season record for points that year, fi nishing with 488. “Andrea has really helped to solidify a strong foundation for our girls’ basketball program, and doing so in just three years is phenomenal,” Grahl said. “Her drive and work ethic are great examples for our younger student-athletes.” This year, Cecil is putting up 17.2 points while battling a knee injury and Oak Harbor, which has struggled with injuries and youth for much of the season, is cur-rently 7-7 and 4-4 in the SBC. On top of being a great athlete, Cecil is a good student, too. She is currently tak-ing some advanced classes as well as a few post-secondary courses. “She really is (a true student-athlete),” Grahl said. “Much like all of our girls’ bas-ketball players, Andrea works very hard and excels in the classroom. She is a very solid person and accepts the many respon-sibilities that go along with being a student-athlete.”

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Oak Harbor 6-0 senior Andrea Cecil (3) is double-teamed by Genoa sopho-more Emily Edwards (12) and senior Christy Dazley (20). (Press photo by Harold Hamilton/HEHpho-tos.smug-mug.com)

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Woodmore girls’ basketball lost two key players to injuries, but the Wildcats are holding steady under the play of its only two remaining seniors, hot shooting 5-foot-9 forward Mackenzie Johnson and 5-7 guard Jordan Williams. “We’ve been on the unfortunate end of the injury bug, Kristin Allemenious, she’s one of returning seniors, had a season-end-ing shoulder injury in our fi rst scrimmage,” seventh-year coach Kyle Clair said. “One of our other starters, Jordan Grzegorczyk, tore her ACL last week, so she’s out. We’ve had to do some readjusting, and we’ve looked toward Mackenzie and Jordan to carry the load for us and make the adjustments. “This is a real close knit group. Jordan Williams, our perimeter threat, and Mackenzie feed off each other with their in-side-outside game. That’s been nice for us,” Clair continued. Johnson says she and Williams are up to the challenge. “It’s been a rough season. I think in the end we’ll pull it together,” Johnson said. “We’ve had to change some things with all the injuries that have been happening.” Johnson is shooting a remarkable 50 percent from the fi eld (56 for 113), 44 per-cent from behind the arc (15 for 34). 86 per-cent from the free throw line (12 for 14), and 52 percent from inside the arc (41 for 79). She leads the teams in scoring (12.6 per game) and rebounding (7.2). She scored 26 against Rossford and was shooting well when the Wildcats downed a previously undefeated Ottawa Hills team. “Offensively, she kind of realized that she still needs to be an aggressive player as we’ve gone through the season. She’s picked us up offensively and put up some big numbers for us. She’s having a career year in points, rebounds, and shooting 50 percent from the fi eld, so she’s doing a real nice job,” Clair said. With two players out, Johnson knows it’s her role to score even more if the ‘Cats want to win.

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“I try to set a goal for each game to get a double-double game,” Johnson continued. “I like to challenge myself to do that every game. This year, I’ve had to step up in re-bounding and hope I keep getting better at that.” The injuries have left an already un-dersized team even more undersized. The tallest players remaining are Johnson and sophomore post Makenzie Hoffman, who stand 5-9, which doesn’t help when the Wildcats face a team with a six-footer. “The kids who are getting the minutes in place of those (injured) are sophomores who are getting their fi rst taste of varsity time. So, it’s kind of learning on the run here,” Clair said. “It’s one of those things where we want to get healthy by the time tournament time comes around. We at least want to get some of our bumped and bruised girls back to 100 percent,” Clair continued. “Every league game we play, it seems like it is real-

ly competitive and it comes down to the fourth quarter with three minutes left or so, and it’s always tight. We’ve got to come out on the winning end on some of those, but I think that experience in those competitive league games is going to help us when we get close to tournament time.” So, when Johnson took the night off because of a sore back in Woodmore’s 63-38 Northern Buckeye Conference loss to Genoa (11-3 overall, 6-1 NBC) Tuesday night, it showed. Sophomore guard Lily Rothert was the only ‘Cat in double fi gures with 10 points while Haley Pickard put up 27 and Erica Harder added 15 for Genoa. Johnson plans to rest one week, and then it’s back to the court picking up where she left off. Even though Woodmore is 5-7 overall and 2-5 in the NBC and she’s deal-ing with her own “bumps and bruises”, she will still be a force to be reckoned with. This is nothing new to Johnson. She has been getting signifi cant minutes with

the varsity since her freshman year, “It’s been nice just seeing her develop-ment from her freshman up to senior year. She’s improved every single year,” Clair said. “She’s a very unselfi sh player. She started out the season this year in kind of a distributor role, trying to get everybody involved.” Now in her fourth year as a varsity player, Johnson has learned to be a lead-er. To demonstrate the respect she gets, Johnson was voted captain by her team-mates her junior and senior years. “Keeping the stats and the production on the court in mind, it’s the leadership in the locker room. She pulls kids aside and talks to them, is enthusiastic, and it’s like an extension of a coach on the fl oor,” Clair said. Johnson began playing organized basketball in the fourth grade, and even though her team is not above the .500 mark, this is where she’s rather be her senior year. “I really love my team,” Johnson said. “I love how unselfi sh we all are and how we all work together really well. I’m glad to be a senior on this team we have now because I feel like I can trust them. I feel like whatever I do, they will follow me, and they trust me back.” Johnson says she has looked at playing at a couple of colleges, but hasn’t made any decisions yet. Clair believes she has what it takes to play at the next level. “I’ve talked to a few (college) coach-es who have been interested in her. She’s weighing her options and seeing what’s available. I know she is entertaining that notion,” Clair said.

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Senior Nate Hagan wants what his coach, Antonio Guerra, already has.

Hagan, who grew up in East Toledo and whose parents, Chuck and Jen, are both Waite High School graduates and former standout athletes, didn’t get the chance to wrestle for the Indians after Toledo Public Schools disbanded wrestling following the 2009-10 school year.

Wrestling returned to the TPS sched-ule last season, but Hagan was busy etching his name into the Central Catholic record books after winning the Division II state title at 132 pounds. The fact that Waite didn’t have a wrestling program for three years did not affect Hagan. He said he was going to compete wherever Guerra was coaching.

Guerra, a four-time City League cham-pion and two-time state qualifi er at Waite, went on to win two NCAA Division II titles (2006, ‘07) at the University of Findlay, where he is tied for the most wins (123) in school history. Guerra is in his fourth year as the head coach at Central Catholic.

“I’ve been wrestling with Tony since I was 6 years old,” Hagan, 17, said. “He went through the East Toledo Wrestling Club. I watched his college career, and he came back and taught camps with the head coach at Findlay. When I found out he was going to coach in Toledo, I was pretty set at go-ing wherever he went. Whatever school he went to, I was going to go to.

“He’s always been looking for the best for me and tried to make me that much better. He was a two-time national champ from Toledo, and I’d like to be the third one. Hopefully more than two, if not four times.”

Hagan has moved up to 138 pounds this season, where he is 16-5. He has 120 career wins and counting, and is in his sec-ond year as a team captain for the Irish.

“He’s a very dedicated kid,” Guerra said. “He’s been around wrestling for a long time. He’s disciplined and a hard worker. He’s a good motivator for the other kids as well, not only vocally but in the way he

Tony Guerra’s leadership keeps Hagan motivated

prepares and the way he trains. He’s a great role model for a lot of other guys. He de-serves all the recognition he gets. He puts in the work and he gets the results.”

Hagan has already signed on to wrestle a Edinboro (Pa.) University, which com-petes at the D-I level in wrestling, next sea-son.

“They’ve been one of the top 10 Division I programs for a number of years now,” Guerra said. “Nate will fi t in perfect-ly there.”

Hagan said choosing a school before the start of his senior season was a relief.

“It was a weight off my shoulders,” he said. “It felt good to know all the hard work fi nally paid off, getting me to college and to the next step in my sport and in education to further my life.”

Winning a state title last year took a load off as well. Hagan was a district cham-pion as a sophomore, but the Ohio High School Athletic Association refused to let him compete at the state tournament be-cause of a skin infection.

“That (title) meant the world to me,” Hagan said. “I knew I could win a state ti-

Defending Division II state champion Nate Hagan takes on defending D-I state champion Richie Screptock from Clay. (Press photo by Scott Grau/TRACsports.org)

tle, and I was going to. I was ranked fourth in the state, and I was pretty much the un-derdog. Everything that motivates me was (because of what happened) my sophomore year.”

Hagan has already wrestled three matches this season that were worthy of the state fi nals.

Hagan and Clay senior Richie Screptock, last year’s D-I state champ at 132 pounds, have faced each other nine times in high school, with Hagan holding a 6-1 edge entering this season. The two collided in the fi rst tournament of the season, in the fi nals of the Solon Comet Classic, and Hagan won 3-2 in an ultimate tiebreaker.

“Nate got an escape in overtime,” Guerra said. “It was a very intense match. Those guys wrestle at a very high level. You don’t see two state champs go at it very of-ten.”

Hagan and Screptock wrestled again at the Brecksville Holiday Tournament, and Screptock emerged with a 4-2 overtime win. Then, in a dual meet at Clay, Screptock helped the Eagles snag a two-point team win over the Irish with a 3-2 overtime win

over Hagan. Screptock also beat Hagan by one point at the Super 32 Tournament over the summer in North Carolina.

“He’s always good, and I’m good, and it’s just a battle of the styles, really,” Hagan said. “Every time we wrestle each other I feel like it makes us both better, win or lose. We both give each other 100 percent all the time. I like the close, hard matches like that.”

Hagan, who now lives in West Toledo, honed his wrestling skills at a young age at the East Toledo Wrestling Club. He said he competed at the club from age 6-14.

“That’s where I learned pretty much everything,” Hagan said. “It was just fam-ily over there. Everybody I wrestled with over there, I talk to them to this day. They helped me become a man and taught me good life lessons.”

Hagan, who also plays soccer at Central Catholic, has an opportunity to become the fi rst four-time Three Rivers Athletic Conference champion this season. He can also become Central’s second two-time state champ, joining Alex Mossing.

“He’s motivated to continue to get bet-ter and to defi nitely go out and capture an-other state title,” Guerra said.

Hagan, the youngest of four children – his brother, Anthony, wrestled at Start – won’t be an underdog at the state tourney this year. He is the projected state champion.

“I just want to go one match at a time and just get better each day in the practice room,” Hagan said. “My big goals are to be-come the fi rst four-time TRAC champ and win another state title.”

““He’s always good, and I’m good, and it’s a battle of the

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222 E. Front St., Pemberville

16388 N River Rd

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Local excavating company in needof experienced dump truck driver.CDL-B required, full-time, competi-tive pay. Call 419-972-6061

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419-666-3993East 2-bedroom, 1-story house, off-street parking, enclosed rear porch,storage shed, near St. Thomas, nopets, $475 plus deposit/utilities. 419-367-3561East side, 2 bedroom upper,$425/mo., No Pets, Nevada/Doverarea, Clean! 419-836-9870 or 419-276-2840.East Side- 2 or 3 bedroom house,$550/mo. 419-932-0503

East Toledo (Oswald Street) 2/3BR upper non-smoking unit. Includesappliances, water and trash services.Excellent references and proof ofemployment required. No pets orsmoking. $400/mo., $300 deposit,plus utilities. 419-898-1382 or 419-261-9724.

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Genoa-in town, 2br, 1ba, 1 cargarage, frig./stove, no pets/smoking,$750/month plus utilities and deposit.419-559-7698GIBSONBURG- 3 bedroom, 2 story, utilities and appliances in-cluded, $750/mo. No pets. Call 419-355-9983LEMOYNE-Extra Large 1 bedroomupper, washer/dryer hookup, appli-ances, garage, $485/mo. +1st/lastdeposit, No pets. 419-836-7604 after6pm.

Millbury townhouse, 2-bedroom,1.5 bath, washer/dryer hookups, pri-vate patio, no pets, $565/month.419-260-7583MILLBURY- Latcha Rd., 4 bedroomhome, 2 bath, large eat-in kitchen,full basement, no pets/smoking,$950/mo. +Deposit/Utilities. 419-837-5155Near Waite High! Spacious 3 Bed,Basement, Garage, $625 p/mo.Tax Returns! Danny 419-356-5269,L/Rltor-OH.

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OREGON- 4 bedroom home, 2bath, $1250/mo. water included, 1car detached garage. Call 419-693-9391WALBRIDGE, Blair Dr., 2 bed apt.living room, dining room, laundryroom , walk-in closets, efficient gasheat & hot water, fresh paintthroughout, $550/mo. 419-409-1014

Western Ottawa County farm-house, 4 bed, 2 bath, basement,A/C, detached 2 car garage.$850/mo. +Deposit/Utilities, OakHarbor schools. 567-202-3100 forappointment.

Woodville, Ohio- 2 bedroom apt.,upper, just painted, appliances, quietneighborhood, laundry facility,$419/mo. +Deposit Also looking for Asst. Manager onsite. 419-669-0274

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hearing Wednesday, February 11, 2015 at 7:00 p.m. at the WoodvilleTownship Volunteer Fire Station, 321 East Main Street, Woodville, tohear a request for a proposed zoning change from Hunter Haar on afive (5) acre parcel at 4685 US 20, Woodville Township, Parcel # 28-01-00-0015-01 from agriculture to general commercial.

Persons who desire to state objection or support for this proposedvariance are encouraged to appear in person, or by Attorney at thismeeting. Correspondence may be mailed to Woodville Township, POBox 121, Woodville, Ohio 43469.

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Metro 01/26/15

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